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    One of the two silver jugs commissioned by Sawai Singh II of Jaipur in 1902. . Used to carry 9000 liters of Water From Ganges to London as he attended Edward VII’s coronation. Due to his religion, he did not consider European water suitable for his drinking and brought his own.


    One of the two silver jugs commissioned by Sawai Singh II of Jaipur in 1902. . Used to carry 9000 liters of Water From Ganges to London as he attended Edward VII’s coronation. Due to his religion, he did not consider European water suitable for his drinking and brought his own.

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    33 Comments

    1. Intelligent-Fig-8989 on

      Such wastage by Indian royalty is probably why India continues to be poor even today.

    2. Ghost_of_Cain on

      I was thinking about an extreme analogy for taking something dangerously unsanitary to avoid using something far healthier, but came up with nothing better than to bring Ganges-water to avoid drinking European water.

    3. Eragon_1318 on

      this is kept in the Jaipur city palace, and they have somehow maintained it properly till now. I was surprised to see that when I went there couple of years ago

    4. Angry3042 on

      He could have just gotten a bucket of European water & taken a piss & dump in it … same, same!

    7. Euphoric-Animator-97 on

      First glance I thought this was a 3D render with an HDRI in the middle xD

    12. KingKohishi on

      Silver is a a potent microbial agent.

      19th century Industrial Age England had probably the most polluted rivers in the World.

    13. AbbreviationsWide331 on

      So that thing weighs 9t when filled up?! How the hell did they transport it back then? And so far?

    18. Ori_553 on

      I’d be more interested in the transport of 9 Tons in 1902. Not that it couldn’t technically be done, but the logistics of unloading that from a ship and transporting it by road towards London

    19. AnnualRemote7367 on

      I am gonna assume the cleanliness of European cities and india in 1902 might be the reverse of how it is now

    20. The_mingthing on

      I call bull, theres got to be a 0 too many in that. If those furnitures and trash can is normal sized, I’d say its closer in size to an 1cubic IBC, so close to 1000 liters, meaning 900 would make sense.

    21. Leonardking88 on

      So… He enjoyed drinking the water filled with poo, urine, ashes and soap? Got it. 

    22. tonsilstonesmoothiee on

      Bet his servants sneakily filled them up when they get the chance. “I ain’t going back to the ganga so he can have a dip on his inflatable pool”

    23. whatasadfella on

      Isn’t the Ganges the most polluted water way on earth? I suppose 125 years ago it wasn’t as bad

    25. ThisIsFrigglish on

      Yeah I wouldn’t drink water in 1900s London either.

      Mind you I wouldn’t drink 2000s Ganges water, so maybe it balances out somehow.

    26. PMmeIamlonley on

      Sad to think the Ganges was probably far cleaner than the Thames back then and now its one of the most polluted rivers on Earth. I dont understand how people who hold a river to be sacred can treat it like such a garbage dump. 

    28. ThinBobcat4047 on

      I get that the Ganges is polluted now, but the number of lowkey racist comments here are genuinely disturbing.

    29. BigMax on

      It’s always interesting to me to see how much of our preserved history is only that of the ultra-wealthy and incredibly wasteful.

      So on the one hand, I’m glad we have a lot of those things… the artifacts, the palaces, the monuments, the sculptures. But on the other… it’s kind of sad to think about some of these, and just how horribly selfish and stupid and wasteful a project like this was, to craft a massive, ornate, silver jug to tote specific water around in.

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